World Cup Coverage in Flash
ESPN has a Flash application for El Mundial — a k a the World Cup — but it sends you out to HTML pages for the team data. Bummer! And it doesn’t seem to do anything live. What gives? It’s more like an ad for T-shirts than a real multimedia news feature.
The New York Times has a very nice database-driven application in Flash for the World Cup, via Agence France-Presse and Art Movies. Live and recaps. Very slick. Loads like greased lightning too.
BBC Sports has a Shockwave application that took more than 10 minutes to download and install. Shockwave! Why?! The animated replays are really cool, but after I watched two of them, I got an “out of memory” message! Great idea, poor implementation.
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